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<blockquote data-quote="boondocks" data-source="post: 1140186" data-attributes="member: 20599"><p>I look at it a bit differently. As someone who is trying to live closer to, and even a bit off of, the land, I think stewardship is very important. It's sad that we, as citizens, have not taken more voluntary, grassroots, individual actions to sustain a healthy environment and planet voluntarily. It's a shame that we're so selfish, and greedy, and self-centered, and short-sighted, that we need someone to step in and tell us what should be obvious: that this land is only ours for a moment, and in another moment it will be our greatgreatgrandchildrens'. It wasn't given to our greatgreatgrandparents trashed; how dare we think it's okay to pass it on to future generations in anything less than the best shape we can reasonably muster? To me, it's a deeply moral (even spiritual) issue, and a daily quandary as I do not always (or ever) meet my own standards...</p><p></p><p>And my gosh, to equate not being allowed to pollute at will with what happened to Native Americans? You do realize they were mostly killed, right? That the ones who survived were systematically rounded up and put onto barren little plots of land, and their children taken away to boarding schools where they were at best, punished if they dared to speak their own language, and at worst, suffered physical and sexual abuse, all in the name of "assimilation"? But I guess it turned out ok, 'cause they've got all those casinos now, and tax-free smokes, so we're square.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boondocks, post: 1140186, member: 20599"] I look at it a bit differently. As someone who is trying to live closer to, and even a bit off of, the land, I think stewardship is very important. It's sad that we, as citizens, have not taken more voluntary, grassroots, individual actions to sustain a healthy environment and planet voluntarily. It's a shame that we're so selfish, and greedy, and self-centered, and short-sighted, that we need someone to step in and tell us what should be obvious: that this land is only ours for a moment, and in another moment it will be our greatgreatgrandchildrens'. It wasn't given to our greatgreatgrandparents trashed; how dare we think it's okay to pass it on to future generations in anything less than the best shape we can reasonably muster? To me, it's a deeply moral (even spiritual) issue, and a daily quandary as I do not always (or ever) meet my own standards... And my gosh, to equate not being allowed to pollute at will with what happened to Native Americans? You do realize they were mostly killed, right? That the ones who survived were systematically rounded up and put onto barren little plots of land, and their children taken away to boarding schools where they were at best, punished if they dared to speak their own language, and at worst, suffered physical and sexual abuse, all in the name of "assimilation"? But I guess it turned out ok, 'cause they've got all those casinos now, and tax-free smokes, so we're square. [/QUOTE]
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